It would be no contest if New York Democratic voters had to choose just between the two hometown candidates running for president — Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Gillibrand trounces de Blasio 56 percent to 25 percent, with the rest of the Democrats undecided, according to a hypothetical matchup presented in a Siena College poll released Monday.
“New York Democrats strongly prefer the hometown senator over the hometown mayor. Gillibrand would easily best de Blasio in every region of the state, including New York City, where she beats him 56-29 percent,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.
Gillibrand leads de Blasio 69 percent to 18 percent even among liberal Democrats.
De Blasio holds a narrow, three-point edge with black voters and only trails by eight points with younger voters.
“However, older voters favor Gillibrand by more than 40 points and white voters favor her by 50 points,” Greenberg said.
De Blasio is underwater statewide — even among Democratic voters.
Among all voters, 53 percent have an unfavorable view of the mayor, compared with 29 percent of voters who view him favorably. Even in New York City, 52 percent view him unfavorably and only 39 percent favorably.
And among Democrats statewide, only 39 percent view the two-term New York City mayor favorably and 45 percent unfavorably.
Only black voters — by a 56 percent-to-26 percent margin — view him favorably.
Meanwhile, President Trump remains deeply unpopular in his home state.
Only 29 percent of voters say they are prepared to re-elect Trump, while 68 percent say they prefer someone else.
“In hypothetical matchups, Gillibrand leads Trump by 24 points and de Blasio leads Trump by 12 points, although he doesn’t hit 50 percent,” Greenberg said.
There’s mixed news for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was easily re-elected to a third term last November.
A solid majority of voters don’t want Cuomo to seek a fourth term in 2022.
Fifty-eight percent of voters said he should not seek a fourth term, while 37 percent said he should.
But 52 percent of voters view Cuomo favorably, while 42 percent view him unfavorably — his best rating since March 2018.
The poll of 812 registered voters was taken from June 2 to 6 and has a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.
